Queen's University students blast off to US for Nasa robotics competition
He said their main task was to control the rover then provide the autonomous capabilities towards it. And, they had to build rover simulations to test their software before they actually got one.Jack, however, is part of the mechanical side. We ended up winning the competition and had great fun," he said.Then a few weeks later, they were invited to compete at Nasa's international Lunabotics competition.
- ▪He said their main task was to control the rover then provide the autonomous capabilities towards it.
- ▪And, they had to build rover simulations to test their software before they actually got one.Jack, however, is part of the mechanical side.
- ▪We ended up winning the competition and had great fun," he said.Then a few weeks later, they were invited to compete at Nasa's international Lunabotics competition.
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Queen's University students blast off to US for Nasa robotics competitionImage source, Queen's University BelfastImage caption, The team is made up of 10 students from Queen's University BelfastByLucy CarlinBBC News NIPublished2 minutes agoCould a robot designed by young engineering students from Northern Ireland end up on the Moon?A team, from Queen's University Belfast (QUB), are heading to Florida later this month to take part in a Nasa 'lunabotics' competition.Lunabotics is a university-level competition for teams to use the Nasa systems engineering process to design, build, and operate a lunar robot.The students created a lab-built robot that they will bring to the competition to find out how it would deal with future moon missions.The robots will be expected to dig up lunar…
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